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HARDING, HOWELL & CO HARDING, HOWELL & COThe 1st department Store was opened in 1796 when Harding, Howell & Co converted a London townhouse into a departmented shop which even included a restaurant. Date: 1809
GINGERBREAD SELLER / 1796A seller of hot spice gingerbread, smoking hot! Date: 1796
MYTTON LOSES WINNINGSEnglish eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) homeward bound one evening from Doncaster falls asleep while counting his winnings - thus many bank- notes were blown away & lost. Date: 1820s
MYTTON AS HWAYMANJOHN MYTTON After dining at Halston House the doctor & clergyman are held-up at gun-point by Mytton disguised as a smock-wearing highwayman. What a lark! Date: 1796 - 1834
GAMING DEN / MYTTONA hell of a row in a hell. Mytton shows fight. A brawl breaks out amongst some high- spirited gents in a gaming den. Included is the eccentric squire John Mytton (1796-1834) Date: 1820s
JUMPING A TOLLGATEEccentric English John Mytton (1796-1834) attempts to drive his carriage over a tollgate much to the annoyance of the toll-keeper & doubtless his passenger. Date: 1820s
MYTTONS JUMPS TOLLGATEEccentric English John Mytton (1796-1834) attempts to drive his carriage over a tollgate much to the annoyance of the toll-keeper & doubtless his passenger. Date: 1820s
MYTTON DRIVES CARRIAGEJOHN MYTTON English eccentric attempts to drive his carriage over a tollgate much to the annoyance of the toll-keeper and doubtless his passenger Date: 1796 - 1834
BATTLE OF NERESHEIN The French defeat the Austrians Date: 11 August 1796
COSTUME SATIRE 1796A caricature of the extravagant fashions of the period Date: 1796
LADIES AT THE THEATRELadies of fashion at the theatre. Date: 1796
REVOLUTIONARY FESTIVALParisians celebrate the Foundation of the Republic with a chariot race in the Champ de Mars Date: 22 September 1796
AUSTRIAN NAPOLEONICAustrian uniforms Date: 1796
GAMBLING / SPOILSDividing the spoils Date: 1796
DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUSFRANKLINS TARTAR, or WILD CARNATION one of several species Date: 1796
NAPOLEON AT ARCOLADuring the Italian campaign, Napoleon leads his men to victory at the bridge of Arcola Date: 15 November 1796
Papaver Orientale or Eastern Poppy Date: 1796
EVENTS / WAR / REVOLUTIONARYITALIAN CAMPAIGN Napoleon at the campfire on the eve of battle Date: circa May 1796
Tsar Nicolas I (1796 - 1855) reviewing his guard. Date: circa 1840
Plant illustration by Franz Andreas Bauer - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
LADIES UNDRESS 1796Ladies dress Date: 1796
Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799). Qing DynastyQIANLONG (1711-1799). Chinese Emperor (1735-1796) of the Qing Dynasty. 1847 French original work. Spanish translation published in Barcelona
Karl Friedrich SteinmetzKARL FRIEDRICH von STEINMETZ Prussian military commander, with colleagues general von Jastrow and general von Goeben. Date: 1796 - 1877
Napoleon halting the pillage of RomeScene during the Italian Campaign in the Revolutionary Wars -- Napoleon halting the pillage of Rome by his invading French army
Joshua Heilmann, German textile innovatorJoshua Heilmann, German innovator in textile manufacture. He invented the first machine for combing cotton, and helped to revolutionise the embroidery industry
Cartoon, Promis d Horrors of the French Invasion, or, Forcible Reasons for negotiating a Regicide Peace, Vide, The Authority of Edmund Burke, by James Gillray
Francois de Charette - French Royalist soldier & politicianFrancois Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (1763-1796) - a French Royalist soldier and politician. He was one of the leaders of the bloody events termed the " Revolt in the Vend饦 quot;
View of Temple Bar, Fleet Street, London, with pedestrians and traffic. Date: 1796
MARY UNWIN friend of the poet William Cowper, seated in the garden. Date: 1724 - 1796
August Platen-HallermundAUGUST graf von PLATEN- HALLERMUNDE German writer Date: 1796 - 1835
Adolf Von KniggeADOLF FRANZ FRIEDRICH, freiherr von KNIGGE German writer Date: 1752 - 1796
Galleon under full sail Date: 1796
George Catlin / PaintingGEORGE CATLIN American artist and author, painting the portrait of an Indian Chief at the base of the Rocky Mountains
O Lord O Lord! I can not - I never shall remember?O Lord O Lord! I can not - I never shall remember all these cursed conversions, filings, marches, counter marches and wheelings
Plate 162 - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Pterostylis rufa, rusty hood - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Plumeria sp. lei flower - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Erica fascicularis - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Erica mucasa - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Erica sexfaria, heather - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Erica cluerta - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Ericaceae - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Jacksonia scoparia, dogwood - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Hermannia sp. - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Monsonia sp. - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Swainsona sp. - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Goodyera pubescens, rattlesnake orchid - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
Epidendrum sp. orchid - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)